30228 - Sociology of conspiracy theories - summer-term 2023
Institute of sociology, Freie Universität Berlin
5/11/23
Epistemological motives?
Existential motives?
Social motives?
Are motives fulfilled?
What are strategies against conspiracy beliefs?
Conspiracy theory
Conspiracy belief
Conspiracy thinking
Conspiracy theorist
“Conspiracy thinking leads to specific conspiracy beliefs, but conspiracy thinking and conspiracy beliefs will be correlated with different demographics” (Smallpage et al., 2020, p. 265)
Education
Income
Partisanship and ideology
Gender, race, age?
Imagine we would like to measure the effect of income and education on COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs.
Task: Create a measurement scale for COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs
Inwieweit halten Sie die folgenden Aussagen für richtig oder falsch, wenn Sie an das Coronavirus denken? (Matrix-Frage, randomisierte Antwort-Items, 1-5 scale)